August, 2017 archive
Continuous Campaign Cacophony 0
Farron scornfully points out the the Trump administration is already working on deceptive campaign 2020 commercials.
Meta: Finger Follies 0
I’ve figured out and fixed why, if you came to the main welcome page for this site and clicked the link for the blog, you would get a malformed nada, nothing, zilch.
It was a typo.
Blasted computers, wnat you tu splet stuf rite.
Target Audience 0
The son of the founder of the white nationalist website, Stormfront, who has renounced his father’s views, tells what America’s Neo-Nazi, white supremacist movement looked like from the inside and why he finds it dangerous. Here’s how he starts out (emphasis added):
Much more at the link.
Afterthought:
Natch, “I’m not racist, but” means “I’m a racist, and.”
It’s a corollary to what I learned back when I did management training in communications skills:
“Yes, but” always means “No.”
Monumental Stupidity 0
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In related news, my local rag reports that there might be some cracks appearing in the base.
Trial Separation? 0
Several advisory boards to the President have recently resigned en mass as a result of Trump’s embrace of Neo-Nazis and his mealy-mouthed refusal to condemn the Confederate insurgency in Charlottesville, Virginia. Admittedly these groups are largely symbolic, but there is a larger symbolism in their resignations.
At the Washington Monthly, Nancy LeTourneau considers the implications of corporate CEOs’ jump off the Trump ship. A snippet (follow the link for the complete article:
The conventional wisdom is that the Republican Party’s corporate masters have been willing to tolerate the Republican Party’s bigots and culture warriors so long as the corporations get the tax cuts and other breaks they want. It will be curious to see whether Trumpery leads to the dissolution of that uneasy partnership.
“Look in the Mirror, Boy,” Reprise 0
Der Spiegle devotes another editorial to Donald Trump, and this one is a barn-burner. I find this telling sentence:
Follow the link for the rest of the sentences.
Southern Twistory, Reprise 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear takes down the talking point that removing memorials to American traitors is somehow “destroying history.” (History can be misinterpreted, reinterpreted, explored, even forgotten, but it cannot be destroyed, for its fruits are all around us.) Here’s a nugget (emphasis in the original):
Southern Twistory 0
In The Roanoke Times, Halford Ryan explodes the myths that neo-Confederates and apologists for the South’s rebellion to preserve slavery tell themselves. Here’s one; follow the link for more:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More polite play.
A 4-year-old girl is in critical condition after a shooting Friday night.
(snip)
Just another day in the Gun Nut Garden of Eden . . . .
“Look in the Mirror, Boy” 0
In an editorial, Der Spiegel takes a look at Donald Trump.
It is not flattering.
Here’s an excerpt:
Follow the link for the complete article.
“No Irish Need Apply” 0
Writing from disgust, Robert F. Lyons protests Donald Trump’s and the Trumpkins’ immigration proposals by telling the story of his Irish immigrant ancestors.
Read it.
